More a note than anything else, Facebook Mobile now has over 100 Million users. Don’t forget about the mobile crowd.
Technology that makes the world more human instead of less human. That’s nice. By texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999, $10 is added to your phone bill. Making it this easy and natural to donate has meant over $5 million being raised in a matter of days. This is the fastest and most generous results the Red Cross has ever had and many speculate that it’s because of sites like Twitter and Facebook that the message spread so naturally.
Google’s Local Business Center added a Twitter like feature to the mix to allow owners of business to post items of interest. You can also create coupons which work on mobile devices through the system. Example. Add this to their QR markers and things get awesome!
Junaio launches augmented reality platform for the iPhone and the Web
Junaio aims to enable people to “bring the Internet to the real world” by providing them with a tool to add interactive notes, smileys, web links, rankings, imagery, virtual objects and even Twitter accounts to images of the real world around them. In addition, users can publish their custom augmented reality representations, edit those made by others and easily share the results on the junaio website or Facebook.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/metaio-junaio-augmented-reality-platform/
SnapTax from TurboTax makes 1040EZ even EZ-er by using the iPhone’s camera and some special OCR (optical character recognition) to populate your tax form. Just plain cool but only for Cali residents currently.
Burgerville’s new receipt gets mad attention. Hey, it’s technology related :) They also have a mobile version of the restaurant called “Nomad” which u can find via Twitter.
Augmented ID: Facial Recognition for Mobile (VIDEO) →
AugmentedID uses facial recognition and tracking technology from a company called Polar Rose. You first have to set up an Augmented ID account. Once that’s done, you can maintain different profiles for your public persona versus your private one, switching between them as desired. Each profile has associated with it your contact information, web links, and information about your social networking profiles. Another Augmented ID user could then aim their phone at you and Augmented ID would recognize who you were and show them the appropriate profile
Lonely Planet has launched an Augmented Reality Android app for interactive travel planning. The app overlays icons over landmarks and sites of interest, and allows the user to set up a travel/tour itinerary.
In the two months after it’s launch, the Pizza Hut iPhone app has rung up $1 Million in sales.
